Registered charity (CIO) · Bristol
Bristol Early Music Festival
- 10 trustees
- Income £2k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Rev Bruce Alexander SaundersChair · since 2019
- Clare GriffelTrustee · since 2019
- Ellen O'GormanTrustee · since 2023
- Gustavo de Brito Aranha Sanches InfanteTrustee · since 2023
- Huw Llewelyn MorganTrustee · since 2024
- Ian Thomas NabneyTrustee · since 2024
- John DavenportTrustee · since 2019
- Margaret Claire WilliamsTrustee · since 2023
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- Martin John RobinsonTrustee · since 2023
- Melanie Louise Nicole ReedTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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- Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies · 1 shared trustee
- The Handful · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- South Gloucestershire, Bristol City, Somerset, Dorset and more
- Website
- www.bristolearlymusicfestival.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2019
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2k£2k
- 2024£10k£11k
- 2023£2k£2k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£6k
- 2021£746£378
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR THE ART OF MUSIC, BY: 3.1) ORGANISING AND PRESENTING A FESTIVAL OF EARLY MUSIC IN BRISTOL ANNUALLY OR BIENNIALLY 3.2) PROMOTING THE PERFORMANCE AND WIDENING THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF EARLY MUSIC AMONG PRACTITIONERS AND AUDIENCES IN THE BRISTOL AREA 3.3) BRINGING TOGETHER LOCAL EARLY MUSIC PRACTITIONERS FOR MUTUAL ENCOURAGEMENT, ENJOYMENT, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT 3.4) RAISING AWARENESS OF LOCAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEARING AND PERFORMING EARLY MUSIC IN THE BRISTOL AREA THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
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How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
10 trustees on the board
- Rev Bruce Alexander Saunders Chair since 2019
- Clare Griffel since 2019
- Ellen O'Gorman since 2023
- Gustavo de Brito Aranha Sanches Infante since 2023
- Huw Llewelyn Morgan since 2024
- Ian Thomas Nabney since 2024
- John Davenport since 2019
- Margaret Claire Williams since 2023
- Martin John Robinson since 2023
- Melanie Louise Nicole Reed since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Rev Bruce Alexander Saunders Chair since 2019
- Clare Griffel since 2019
- John Davenport since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Rev Bruce Alexander Saunders Chair since 2019
- Clare Griffel since 2019
- Gustavo de Brito Aranha Sanches Infante since 2023
- Huw Llewelyn Morgan since 2024
- Ian Thomas Nabney since 2024
- John Davenport since 2019
- Margaret Claire Williams since 2023
- Martin John Robinson since 2023
Portfolio (2)
- Ellen O'Gorman since 2023
- Melanie Louise Nicole Reed since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1187125
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 23 Dec 2019 as amended on 29 Sep 2023
- Contact on the register
- 01179681914 · admin@bristolearlymusicfestival.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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